President Trump is right, there is little value in staying in Syria if Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iraq are prepared to mop-up the scattered remnants of ISIS, but the President is wrong, and deeply so, if he thinks that killing a few thousand jihadis and retaking some desolate ground in the Middle East ends the war political Islam, and Iran in particular, have declared on the West.

The relationship between anti-American race-war instigators, such as Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright, and anti-American religious war instigators, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, isn’t a recently formed alliance, but until now they never had facilitators at the highest levels of the United States government, such as the Attorney General, the Secretary of State and the President, to help them accomplish their goals.